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this patio isn’t big enough for the six of us [Music]
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and it’s about time we settle the
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[Applause] score you find it’s all get what you deserve [Music]
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welcome to the outdoor griddle Showdown
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today we’re going to be reviewing a total of five outdoor griddles starting with the Camp Chef a Blackstone coyote Outdoor Living Pit Boss and Royal Gourmet let’s jump in to
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it we’re going to start off with some general stats and then we’re going to move into some test to see how each one performs starting with the Pit Boss here we have the Pit Boss for burer griddle is it going to show us whose
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boss well we’ll see the price tag $449 on this unit four-wheel Caster cast iron top propane unit with 753 Square in of cooking space this unit
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is powdercoated it is 35 in to the top of the cooking surface with 62,000 total be to use throughout the four burners and for grease management it’s really easy because the Trap is right here in the front makes it easy to access the
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Pit Boss doesn’t actually come with any side shelves but it does have a shelf underneath the unit it is a cast iron so it’s really easy to season and it comes with a 2-year warranty right off the top what I really don’t like about this year unit is it doesn’t give you any side
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shelves which is really important when you need to put your trays and your cooking tools your seasonings all those things come on pit you got to give us a couple shelves here what I do like about this unit what I will say is the grease management instead of it being located
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in the back a little difficult to access see how much is in the grease tray it’s located here in the front naturally you scrape to the front makes it easy to manage the grease taking this thing out of the box couldn’t be any more easy
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the legs fold right out from underneath the unit the cast iron top is placed right onto the top the knobs here just get pushed right into place so as far as the installation is or unboxing is concerned I definitely say it was one of the easiest and that wraps it up for the
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Pit Boss so let’s talk about Camp Chef follow me over here this Camp Chef looks like a lean mean griddling machine but looks aren’t always everything so let’s get into the details at at the time of this video
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this unit is $549.99 it doesn’t come with any casters so it is a stationary unit it’s got cold rolled steel for the cooking surface and it’s a propane unit 604 Square in of
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cooking surface the unit itself is made out of an unspecified grade of stainless steel it’s 202 in to the top of the cooking surface little bit shorter than most griddles and we have 48,000 BTUs across the forb Bur burners let’s talk
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about the burners themselves so taking this top off we can expose the burners underneath and you can see we’ve got four linear burners which is pretty common in griddles for grease management we’ve got a small Troth here along the front of the cooking surface and a
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little hole here on the left hand side there’s the grease trap or the grease tray that kind of hooks onto the side shelf here to the left and it comes with disposable aluminum as far as the shelves are concerned on this unit unit
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it’s considered portable so once you take the top off this thing kind of just folds up but the lid doubles as side shelves but it doesn’t come with an underneath shelf so your tank will sit directly on the ground and this thing comes with a one-ear warranty my
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personal thoughts on this thing is it is truly portable so if you want to fold this thing up throw it in the back of your truck take it camping go to a friend’s house go to a cookout man super easy and convenient pretty lightweight other than the top itself one thing I
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really do like is if you’re outside grilling you’re probably chilling so it does come with a bottle opener come on man doesn’t get any cooler than that other than that I think for a portable griddle this thing checks all the boxes that pretty much covers my thoughts here
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on the Camp Chef for now so let’s talk about Royal Gourmet follow me over here Royal Gourmet they imply that this thing is made for royalty but is that really the case let’s take a look under the hood the Royal Gourmet is $279 at
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the time of the making of this video with four Caster wheels it is a propane unit 784 Square in of cooking surface with a ceramic coated steel cooking surface we have a 35in height on this
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unit with 52,000 BTUs across the four burners let’s take a look at what kind of burners we have underneath same thing here we have four linear burners which is pretty standard on most griddles as far as grease
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management is concerned we do have the grease trap located in the back of the unit centered on the cooking surface the side shelves fold in fold out pretty standard on most griddles we do have a shelf underneath the unit as well and it
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does come with a one-year warranty I’m not quite sure about how seasoning works on ceramic coated steel but we’re going to find out today as far as assembly and unboxing is concerned I think $279 should say at all I mean it’s
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probably at the lower end of the price point when it comes to griddles and it came in about as many parts as you can assemble it came in those many parts uh instructions weren’t very clear I would say if you’re going to assemble this thing you might want to do it on your
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own because your wife is going to hate you if you do it together and that’s all she wrote for the Royal Gourmet so let’s move it over to the Blackstone follow me over here Blackstone the big Big Man on
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Campus they’re the brand that put backyard griddles on the map but are they still King of the Hill let’s find out at the time of this video the price tag on this thing is $399.99 it comes on four Caster wheels
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it is a propane unit and carbon rolled steel for the cooking surface the frame is made out of a powdercoated steel it is 36 and2 in to the top of the cooking surface and it has 60,000 BTUs across four burners but let’s take a little bit
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of a closer look at the burners themselves underneath the hood we do have four linear standard burners pretty common in all the griddles that we have today as far as grease management is concerned we have the grease trap
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located in the back center of the cooking surface as far as the shelves are concerned they fold down they fold up just kind of like your standard side shelves there is a shelf underneath the unit as well which I really like it’s pretty standard to season this as it is
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cold rolled steel and it does come with a 1year warranty as far as my thoughts are concerned on this unit it was not the easiest to put together it definitely wasn’t as hard as the Royal Gourmet but it still came in a few pieces I think the Camp Chef and the Pit
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Boss are doing it right where you take it right out of the box and it folds open but it does come with some side shelves and it does have two casters for moving the unit around the other two wheels are kind of just locked into
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place but it’s still mobile all in all I can see why people are gravitating towards this unit it’s pretty functional now that we’ve looked at all the features that the Blackstone has to offer let’s take a look at the last griddle in this fiery
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Showdown last but not least the Wy coyote griddle I’m just kidding it’s just the coyote griddle nothing Wy about it so let’s see what this little flat top has to offer at the time of this video the price tag on on this unit is
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$2,099 and I know that that might sound like a pretty steep price jump from all of the other units that we’ve talked about so far but I did want to address something here this unit can come on a cart but it can actually be built into an outdoor kitchen whether you have an
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outdoor kitchen already that you’re building it into or it can be taken off the cart and integrated into an outdoor kitchen which is really cool and you can actually flip the fuel source so if it comes propane and you want to build it into to an outdoor kitchen you can
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convert it to natural gas if you have it as a natural gas unit but you need to convert it to a propane unit and put it back on the cart you can do that as well so it’s incredibly versatile the cooking surface is made out of 304 stainless steel and so is the body and we have a
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total of 400 square in of cooking surface we’re at 36 1/2 in to the top of the cooking surface on this unit 34,000 total BTUs for the two burners and the burners are actually u-shaped let’s take a look at at those we have two u-shape
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burners and that really helps with giving you even heat distribution across the cooking surface as far as grease management is concerned on this unit it is really easy you can scrape everything forward into
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this Troth and remove the whole tray which makes for easy cleaning the shelves on the side fold up fold down you can take them off put them on as you want and instead of a shelf in the front it actually comes with drawers and a drawer for your propane tank so no more
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bending down having to put that tank underneath the griddle as far as seasoning is concerned you actually don’t have to season 304 which is great and it does come with a limited lifetime warranty and that concludes our griddle tour let’s put the pedal to the metal
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and put these things to the ultimate test Let The Showdown begin now that we’ve got all of the features out of the way in these griddles I’d like to perform a quick test in this quick test we’re going to be testing to see which griddle heats up the fastest and has the
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most uniform and even heat distribution across the cooking surface I’ve got my temperature gun here which is going to give us a precise reading across the board griddles are notorious for having an uneven heated
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surface in today’s test we’re going to find which one has the most even heating [Music] throughout all right what I have here in front of me is the Royal Gourmet and it was actually the lowest post price option in The Griddle lineup that we
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have here today so I’m curious to see how this actually performs head-to-head to some of these other units 125 at the lowest about 145 here
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in the middle 150 160 here on the far right hand side so it’s definitely they were all lit at about the same time cooler hotter side so on this side I’ve got about 175 to 200 but as soon as I go
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right over the top of the burner I’m at about 250 to 300 depending I mean it kind of jumps from 250 to 350 so there’s about 100 uh degree difference but I’d say we’re right at about that 350° Mark uh right now so it’s been
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about 4 minutes and 30 seconds the second one on the lineup here is the Pit Boss and we’re going to see if it really is the boss basically going to perform the same test see how
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quickly it heats up and how even the heat distribution is on this cooking surface so we are just around the 2minute mark and we are just hitting approaching that 300° Mark there’s some spots that are under 300° there are a
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few spots that are just above 300° but man did this thing get hot pretty quickly really impressed with how quickly this came up the temperature the heat Distribution on this far right hand side we’re already pushing that 3 3 40
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350° range but here on the far left we’re not even where anywhere near it closer to 230 so so here we are just approaching the 4minute mark and I’m going to call it at 3 minutes and 51 seconds that we’ve come up to
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temperature on this Pit Boss all right next up is the Camp Chef really intrigued to see how this one performs next to the Pit Boss in the Royal Gourmet I believe this kind of fell in between the Middle from a price
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point perspective but we’ll see how it performs so we are just approaching the 3 minute and 30 second Mark and I’m going to go ahead and call it right
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there I’m getting a temperature here on the left hand side of 350 375 but we do have some inconsistencies I’m going to say we’re averaging about 280 to 300 uh but we did hit the
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350 and uh at 2 minutes and 53 seconds so so far I think this has been the fastest one second to last we have the Blackstone here I’m really curious to see how this one performs next to the
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Camp Chef which came in just over 2 minutes and 50 seconds can it beat it let’s get it lit and find out we have just just past the 2 minute and 30 second Mark and we’re at 260 so
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the Blackstone came in a little bit ahead of the Camp Chef 2 minutes and 30 seconds and I’m catching 350° here on the cooking surface there are some heat inconsistencies I’m catching a
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temperature as low as 200 on one side uh up to 350 and then uh back down to like 275 so definitely not consistent all the way through but it did come up to 350° at 2
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minutes and 30 seconds last but certainly not least we have the coyote stainless steel griddle here it’s actually the only stainless steel griddle that we have in this lineup so
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this cooking surface is competing against cast iron and the ceramic uh cooktops let’s see how it performs and how quickly it gets up to temperature so we are just at about a minute and 40 seconds and we’re averaging about 160
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across the surface pretty consistently I’d say that this surface so far has been the most consistent from one side to the other but I am getting a spike reading here on the far left corner of about 200° so 2 minutes 200° I think it’s getting up there pretty quickly
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will it beat the Camp Chef or the Blackstone we’ll find out and at the 4 minute and 40 second Mark we have a temperature reading of 350 to 375 so um
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even though this might have been one of the slowest to get up to temperature just at a quick um glance and a quick reading across the cooking temperature things are very consistent so uh not a lot of highs and lows in between the burners so uh that’s very interesting to
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see all right now that we’ve got our speed test out of the way with the thermometer gun let’s actually perform a test that we can see we’ve got some Texas toast that we’re going to be
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putting onto each of the griddles to see how that heat distribution transfers to actually [Music] cooking I had to make sure the te the
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bread was the right kind of deliciousness as we cook it we have just hit that 10-minute Mark so let’s start flipping them over and see what that consistency looks like it looks like down here closest to me was a
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pretty cool spot here none of the toast here looks very Brown to me these are like perfect toast so you can see here the second row had went from cooler to warmer on these edges you can see that it’s cool as well too but it looks like
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this middle uh definitely is the hottest this back Edge is actually really hot that should give you an idea of where those hot cold spots are on the griddle you can see along this back Edge none of these really browned up but if you touch
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them they definitely feel toasted but you can see here the second row and third row closest to the center was definitely the hottest and then as you moved to the back Edge it started to cool off a little bit I think on this
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left Edge and along the back definitely the coolest you can see it’s pretty light over here too so I’d say it all the edges don’t get as hot as the center does next up here is the Pit Boss
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on this left hand side there’s a U-shaped burner as you saw in the uh review that we did earlier on some of the components here and the features of each of the griddles so I’m interested to see how this side does on the Pit Boss I’m going to I’m going to say I
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imagine this side is going to get much hotter let’s start flipping them over and see how consistent this is same kind of thing here along the edges I’m finding that uh the toast is still not dark like you see here in the center the center pieces are definitely toasted
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up interesting results here same kind of thing where along the edges it’s a little bit cooler than it is in the center the center is definitely the hot spot on The Griddle but here on the right hand side they toast it up along
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the edge and then it cooled off again surprisingly the U burner didn’t get as hot as quickly as I thought it would and it’s the largest burner in this whole griddle so I expected there to be a little bit more more consistency here than what I’m seeing but the results say
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the center is getting hotter than anywhere else next up here on the Texas toast test is the Camp Chef so let’s get these burners lit and spread out some of the
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toast I’m getting Texas toasted out here interesting first result is the edges here seem to be getting fairly hot compared to the other ones I’m very surprised this is actually very consistent you can see here half of
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these have been toasted almost perfectly then it goes to um the center which on all of them have performed to be the hottest but what I noticed immediately is on the edge these sides are getting just as hot as the center would on some
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of the other results that we’ve uh seen so far closest to me you can see that the toast is halfway toasted which is very consistent all the way through so very surprised with these results next up is the
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Blackstone interesting results about the Blackstone 5 minutes and 30 seconds and I’ve probably seen some of the most crazy inconsistencies so far super hot here
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across the middle but not all the way across the middle really just here the second row got the hottest you can see where it started to burn but then it’s very light in the next row and you see the same thing on this side so there’s kind of just this strip here across the
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middle that seems to get the hottest the edges just like some of the others except for the Camp Chef where it’s not even really toasted around the edges except for here on this first row so cool on all of the edges the center nice
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and hot but even more inconsistencies here all righty guys we are just at the 5 minute Mark now here for the coyote stainless steel griddle the start flipping some of these over and see what
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the heat distribution really looks like on this griddle and right at the 5minute Mark we flipped over the toast the Texas toast here for some very interesting results that I personally was not expecting and remember this this griddle
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has the u-shaped burners so um it’s not like the linear burners that you find in all the other griddles that we’re testing today other than the Pit Boss that one does have one u-shaped burner and um the results are very consistent and I noticed that while I was using the
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heat gun that there wasn’t a a big temperature swing from one side to the other it stayed somewhat consistent all the way through the surface and the toast here shows us the same results so overall we’re pretty consistent all the way up to the edges here from the left
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to the right side the heat is just all the way through the griddle interestingly enough the center isn’t just the hottest part it goes kind of directly over the burner you can tell where it’s the warmest where where in between the burners it’s kind of has a
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cool spot and then back over to the right side where the other u-shaped burner is at you can see it definitely got the hottest here on the far right hand side but overall consistency all the way from front to back on the edges
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even in the center it’s not be like on the other griddles the center was the hottest point it definitely wasn’t the case here with the coyote so uh very impressed with the consistency of this flat top
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with our Texas toast test now completed I have some the overall results show that the coyote and the Camp Chef had pretty good even heat distribution through the entire cooking surface from edge to edge front to back and pretty
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much a tie uh for the other three the Blackstone The Pit Boss and the Royal Gourmet pretty much don’t get hot around all the edges the center point being the warmest or the hottest uh point on the cooking surface uh and pretty much the
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same results uh for those three now it’s time for the ultimate test and putting them head-to-head and I couldn’t think of a better way to do that than cooking a Cowboy Breakfast [Music]
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so these look like done over over easy eggs looks like the eggs came out pretty
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easily can’t complain about that that looks like a good breakfast to me everything was cooked perfectly nothing was burned Royal Gourmet even though you
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don’t light and it was very difficult to put out of the box my cooking experience has been pretty decent here every time you oil this get it to a high temperature you’re really just continuing to season this thing so you
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can’t really overdo [Music] it this one’s definitely getting hotter a little bit faster than the Royal Gourmet even though there’s a little bit of some darker brown here on these cakes
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I think that looks like a good pancake to me eggs still look great for over easy and the bacon is cooking just fine over easy eggs cook to Perfection here man I’m going to say those cakes
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look good to me that looks like some perfect crispy bacon to me I’d say all in all even though the assembly process was much different between the two I’m still having the same cooking experience
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with the Pit Boss out of the way let’s move on to the coyote here get some oil on here I’m cooking on an uneven surface here I’m just trying to prevent these
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from rolling all the way to the back I will say this got a little bit hotter a little bit quicker coming right up will say from my cooking experience I
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feel like it’s getting much hotter quicker which is kind of odd it’s probably just the difference between cooking with stainless steel and cast iron I want to say that my cooking experience here was much faster even though in the speed test it might have
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taken longer for it to get up to temperature cooking the bacon here went much faster cooking the eggs was almost instant and these griddle cakes cooked in no time a totally different cook experience than any of these now for the
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[Music] Blackstone bacon and eggs and eggs and bacon it’s pretty straightforward across the board cooking experience has been relatively similar through all of these
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things maybe some slight differences I will say on the coyote since it is a smaller unit and they are u-shaped burners you’re definitely getting some more even consistent heating from my cooking experience it might not show that on the the heat gun test but from
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my cooking experience it was pretty consistently hot throughout the cooking surface since the burners are so spread out on this 36 in you have some highs and lows in between each of them you’re getting more cooking space but when
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you’re cooking different items like this that might not be a bad thing I will say super easy to cook here that looks like a great breakfast to me and just as
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good of a cooking experience I’ve had on this I’ve had on all of them basically on my limited time cooking on all of these I will say the Camp Chef cooking surface has been the most nonstick with the least amount of
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seasoning or work put into it so I’d say this one’s pretty much been the most user friendly so far and there you have it the conclusion
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to our outdoor griddle Showdown all in all each of these units has their pros and has their cons but they cook very similarly some might get hot faster others might have less hot and cold
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spots through the cooking surface but all in all you’re going to have a very similar griddle experience from one unit to the next I think if you’re looking for something that’s portable and compact the Camp Chef is great for that easy to put together if you’re looking
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something that has the largest cooking surface Blackstone has that if you’re looking for something that’s the cheapest or in the lowest price range Royal Gourmet has that for you and Pit Boss kind of falls in the middle of all of those easy to put
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together very user friendly when it comes to the coyote what I highly recommend about this unit is it is designed to be put into an outdoor kitchen it can be natural gas it can be propane and it can be swap from one to the other it can be put on a cart if you
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don’t have an outdoor kitchen but if you get an outdoor kitchen it can be built into one my personal recommendation is certainly here with the coyote I think that it looks great with the other stainless steel applian Tre that you might already have or will be putting into an outdoor kitchen lifetime
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warranties which is great as a consumer I know that I’m uh investing in something that’s meant to last and if I have any issues with it they’re going to stand behind their products and now you know my personal preference for the best griddle in the west and if you’re
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